Plants are one of the great resources of the world, and as humankind has evolved, socially, spiritually, and economically, we have found, collectively, a myriad uses for the plants around us. One of those uses is for the prevention, treatment, and cure of various disease states. Documented knowledge about such use dates back at least 4000 years, and several of the plant mentioned in the ancie...

Plants are one of the great resources of the world, and as humankind has evolved, socially, spiritually, and economically, we have found, collectively, a myriad uses for the plants around us. One of those uses is for the prevention, treatment, and cure of various disease states. Documented knowledge about such use dates back at least 4000 years, and several of the plant mentioned in the ancie...

THE SEVENTEEN invited papers presented here provide a cross-section of the kinds of forests affected with canopy dieback in the central and south Pacific region. Although the papers were grouped by country, they show interesting betweencountry similarities in research approaches and in the causes considered most plausible at the present state of knowledge. It therefore seems appropriate to reca...